Random Robot Roundup

Intelligrated Robotics Lab announced an educational series of events for National Robotics Week. Check out our earlier article to find more National Robotics Week events

RoboteQ announced the new SBL1360 30A motor controller

Illah Nourbakhsh, of the CMU Robotics Institute, has a new book out, Robot Futures in which he discusses social implications of human-robot interaction

Jose Aisoy let us know about a new robot he’s launching, called the Aisoy1

Check out Fritz the Robotic Puppet, a Kickstarter project that needs your help

IEEE Spectrum posted photos and video of the headless COMAN humanoid robot being pushed around by some humans

The rapid pace of discoveries about the human brain continues with a UC Irvine news release describing a gene linked to long-term memory

NPR posted an article that’s fun on two levels. First it’s a video of John Cleese explaining the human brain. Second, the article describes how to turn on YouTube’s allegedly intelligent closed captioning software, which is totally baffled by Cleese’s antics.

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